This week's New York magazine features an interview with Cynthia Nixon, which is title Educating Cynthia, but is promoted on the New York Metro site with the catch "Formally Known as Miranda."
Within the context of the article (in which Nixon uses tons of big words and is still described as "girlish") the writer of the piece lays out a typical "lunch with a New York celeb" scene. The waitress walks up to Nixon and Emily Nussbaum, hand them the menus, and begins rambling about her awe and admiration (described as "gushing") of Nixon's career.
She remembers back in 1984, hearing about the then-18-year-old actress’s breakthrough accomplishment, when she appeared on Broadway in two productions simultaneously: Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing and David Rabe’s Hurlyburly. “You’re the reason I came to New York,” she concludes, beaming.
“Thank you,” Nixon responds. She’s gracious and she’s direct, but she doesn’t engage. And then she snaps right back to our discussion without further comment.
Burn! We're sure that waitress/aspiring actress felt just fabulous about her idol's reaction. If she's formally known as Miranda, were going to take a shot and assume Nixon is currently known as "Huge Bitch."
Educating Cynthia [Emily Nussbaum, New York Magazine]
Editorial Director
calling her a bitch is uncalled for, and that was not a burn. what would've been bitchy is if she had yelled at the waitress or called her rude or something.
not only that, if she'd had an extended convo with the waitress, you would've still called her a bitch for being rude to the interviewer. she can't win.
Since when does saying "thank you" constitute being "bitchy"?
Wouldn't that be "formerly"?